Just Starting Out

You need to think if you need it the website to create a list, because if a costumer buy something in your website and then leave you can't follow him up. As you can see websites are made in one single goal to have an opt-in (giving their email to you). Once you have their email you can make sales much better and automatically. 1 problem in websites is you need time in producing quality content, SEO, etc...but if your are good in writing in a particular niche or you can outsource your content then no problem.

Making sales on your website happens rarely. Just as Benung said, the aim of creating a website is to get people's e-mail, that's what you should aim at. You can do so by adding an opt-in form under any of your posts. One thing, do more research on your niche. That will help you write fresh content which is essential for SEO and visitor's trust in you. For the SEO plugin, google SEO By Yoast and you'll find it's definitive guide. Also there are some articles about it in WPBeginner. About the 50 posts, I think it's a lie. 10 posts are enough. Hope this helps.

Good luck.

Here is a list for you to follow. Maybe not completely, but the general idea is there.
You are probably at Part 3 right now.

What I would do is create a working SYSTEM before you drive traffic.

Part 1: Brainstorming
Choose a niche
Think of a name
Check Availability
Brand Colours
Logo Design

Part 2: Setting Up
Buy a Domain
Get a Web Host
Installing Wordpress
Setting Up Wordpress
Installing Plugins

Part 3: Getting Leads
Join Aweber
Create Email List
Create a Form
Landing Page
A/B Testing
Setup Autoresponder

Part 4: Affiliate Programs
Choosing your favourite
Tracking Your Link
High Tier Programs

Part 5: Copywriting
Finding article ideas
Writing good headlines
scheduling articles

Part 6: Driving traffic
Social Media
Guest Posting
Q&A Sites
Create Tutorials

Use social media. Piggyback on the influence of influence leaders in your niche.

Use one of the opt-in addons, or find one of the squeeze page creator websites out there, or just search for some opt-in code that u can install on ur own.

If you want to get visitors, study how to do proper SEO techniques. It is not only good for you site but it will keep it safe from the google animals like penguin and panda that will derank your site.

You should learn On page SEO which is to optimize your blog posts from headings, underlines, tags etc that makes the google robot pay attention to your site.

The best tools I use is called SEO pressor for this and its free but your can get the premium too if you wish.

Then you need Off page SEO which is creating backlinks to your site. But before you do this you need to understand that just creating backlinks towards your site is like sleeping around in a groupie party and you will catch a disease that will harm your site forever.

You also beed to understand that not a backlinks are created equal. This is where higher ranking sites or authority sites backlinking to your site will help increase your position on search engines. You need to create a buffer around your site to protect it from getting pimp slapped by google animals.

So lesser value backlinks comments on forums and such needs to be backlinked not directly to your site but towards web 2.0 site like blogger for example. Now create a link from that blogger blogsite you have and create another backlink pointing towards your site this time. This is ok now because if web 2.0 sites get slapped by the google panda or penguin, your site still protected.
You can create a bunch of backlinks pointing towards your web 2.0 instead of your site and raise its authority online.
The web 2.0 blogger's higher authority now that is pointing to your site will then make your site rank higher.
This is called pyramid backlinking.

You could also go blackhat and use service like linkemperor to this work for you and expect to have your posts rank on top of search engines in a couple of months or sooner.

Hope this clears how to rank and profit your posts since marketing is the fun part

Joe

100% go with squeeze page. You don't have to make it your homepage, but you should send most (if not all) your traffic to your squeeze page because the only asset you will have is a list.

It's like beating a dead horse talking about list building on here. "The money is in the list"

It's true though: the money really is in the list.

Offer visitors some kind of incentive to join your newsletter, not just a "subscribe" button. Give them some kind of bribe and start building your list. Then you can create follow up campaigns that do the selling and build a relationship for you. Hope this helps

I personally like how he is currently selling this on flippa.

Seems like he is just inflating his visitor count so he can sell it for a quick buck.

To get traffic you can use 2 things
1. Time (Blog commenting) (Guest posts) ETC
2. Money (Facebook, google, bing ads) ETC

So I personally use both. More Money however I put in time too.

So, next step is TRAFFIC.